Improved clothes-wringer



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

nB-E'N BLAKEMAN'AND Josnrn n. Ginn, or CHARLESTON, ILLINois.

nvneaovrsoY cLoT'HEs-WRINGEPL.

Specification for-ming part ofLetters Patent No. 44,779, dated October 25, 1864.

T0 all whom it may concern/ Be it known that we, EBEN BLAKEMAN and JOSEPH R. GiLL, of Charleston, in the county of Coles and State of Illinois, -have'invented anew and useful Improvement in Clothes- Wringers 5 and we do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable any personskilled in the art to make and use the same, reference bei-ng had .to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view .of the wringer 5 Fig.

2, a'view of a'section of the same taken onthe line w of Fig. l. 1

-Similar letters of referer-ice indicate like pirts. v The general objectvof our improvements is to produce-a wringer which shallbe more con.-

- The back part of the sides of the frame at A is so formed as to allow `it to lit over the edge of the tub which contains the clothes'to be wrung, and clamps B are' secured in the feet of the shortlegs Q, in such a manner as to be capable of turning toanyangle and so embrace a tub with straight or curved si des withequal ease. The legs Q should be covered' with.

ferrules and made strong, so as tocontain the 'sockets for holding the clamps. The crank t' lis secured to the end of the shaft o of the lower pressure-roller, C.

l The pressurerollers C, the upper one of which' is shown in Fig. 1, are made of rubber or other elastic material. A gear, lr, is placed on theopposite end of the shaft o of the lower roller, C, meshing into a gear, lc, on shaft S,

which runs through the springpiece A of the frame. The opposite end of this shaft carries a friction-wheel, l), shown in blue outline in the sectional view, which wheel D is in constant contact with a wheel, D, which runs upon a pin-shaft on. that end of the frame, and

this 'again in contact with a similar wheel, D,

on the end of kthe shaft 0- of the upper press ure-roller, C. The shaft of the upper roller, C, is jourualed in a box, h, which is free to move vertically in" the side framing.' The pinshaft of the friction-wheel D passes through' the lower end of an arm, g, which is suspended by a free joint from the top piece, G, which rests upon thecranksend of theA frame. A

`:crewpin, l', running down into thefranie, se-

is seen in Fig. 2'is jourualed in a sliding box,

T. The'rods a, which carry the rubber springs e yand their caps E, are carried down through the sliding l]our'nallbo'xes h; and`T;a's---shown clearly in the sectional View, and lie in grooves out inthe periphery of the shafts -O and O of the pressure-rollers, and at each end of 'these shafts, so as to bind those shafts in their place and prevent end-play. The lower ends of the rods a are secured in placeby means of rods d.

The operation of the' wringer is as follows: Motion being given to the shaft O' by the4 crank i. the lower roller, C, will cause the upper roller, G, to revolve. The gear k on the shaft O'will move the shaft S and its friction-wheel D, which is on the crank end of the machine and beneaththe friction-wheel D', and thereby the wheel D is set in motion., The hanging journal-box g, which carries the wheel D, is set in such a position by means of the screw-pin r as that the wheel D shall be in contact with the wheels D and D, all of which are covered with rubber or other elastic material. WhenA ever a large body of clothing or any thick maf' neath it the sliding` box h raises" the piece G,

whose fulcrum is the pin r, and thereby the journal-box g is depressed, forcing the wheel D more iirml y against the wheels D DU, thus equalizing the strain upon both ends'ot the shaft O of the upper roller, U.

Itis evident that the frame is made very sti tf by means ofthe rods a. and d, which fur nish the chief means of securing the frame to gather.

Having thus described our invention, We claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. Holding the main parts of the frame of the Wringer together by means of the rods a, which sustain the springs e and the rods d and the grooves in the roller-shafts, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the friction-wheel D', its hanging journal-box g, and top piece, G, with the friction-Wheels D and D" and the prcssnreroller C, substantially as described.

3. The gear k and shaft S, in connection with the lower frictionwhcel, D, as set forth.

EDEN BLAKEMAN. JOSEPH 1t. GILL. Witnesses:

JOHN WALTRXP, v ALEXANDER WAL'LRIP. 

